You know the bald eagle is a scavanger

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Wrong! They are hunters and scavengers.

Oct 20, 2017, 9:52 AM [ in reply to You know the bald eagle is a scavanger ]

Mostly they fish...

"Sixty to ninety percent of a bald eagle's diet consists of fish. The birds generally scavenge dead fish, although they will catch live fish as well. They will take an occasional heron, crow, grouse, duck, gull, or small mammal, especially if fish are not available. They will feed on dead animals, if other food is not found. This includes dead animals, such as road killed raccoon or deer, as well as chickens and small pigs, which farmers may throw out with their manure during the winter. During deer season bald eagles may come down to feed on the innerds of the deer that the hunters leave behind.

The bald eagle is an opportunist and will sometimes steal fish from an osprey or crow. But ospreys have been observed stealing fish from young eagles as well. The bald eagle uses several fishing techniques. A favorite method is to perch in a tree and watch for a fish swimming in open water nearby, and then swoop down to capture it. If a suitable tree is not available near the water for perching, the birds may also fly out over open water looking for fish below. In winter, they may perch on the edge of ice near open water and wait for fish to float by, or to wash up on the ice.

After catching a fish the eagle will either fly back to a perching tree to eat it, or if the fish is small enough, swallow the fish whole while the bird is in flight. Occasionally, eagles will carry a larger fish they have caught back to the ice or to the shore to be eaten. In over 80% of their feeding, wintering bald eagles along the Mississippi River, feed upon small fish they can eat while flying."

Pretty sure they eat gamecocks too!

For your reading pleasure:

http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle3.html

http://eaglenature.com/eagle_facts.php

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Wrong! They are hunters and scavengers.

There are a few bald eagles and ospreys in my neighborhood

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